Lake Trout

Although originally lumped together with many of the so-called jam bands, Lake Trout's sound, mixing elements of myriad contemporary styles, developed around a harder-edged progressive indie rock attack. Formed while bandmembers were attending music school in Baltimore in the mid-'90s, the quintet featured Woody Ranere on vocals and guitar; Ed Harris on guitar; Mike Lowry on drums; James Griffith on electric bass; and Matt Pierce on keyboards, flute, and vocals. Their early sound -- which combined jazz with hip-hop, drawing on the work of A Tribe Called Quest, Beck, Pat Marti...